About neutrals: they are sort of necessary, since I don't see any other way to guarantee fairness of drops with the rail bonuses. If the stations started regular, then what if you drop with both stations of italy for example... As for lowering the neutrals, this is something that could be considered, but again, there are fairness issues... it's already lucky for someone to drop next to the italy stations, since there's only 4 neutrals to take and it gives you a good bonus. And I don't particularly like the idea of "1 neutral territories" since they give a huge advantage in any multiplayer games with cards to whoever drops next to them.

How about lowering the Ottoman bonus? Increasing some of the others?

What if only SOME of the stations were droppable? obviously not the auto deploys, but maybe one in every country might make the map more interesting. Just a thought. looking forward to playing the update

Hopscotcher wrote:What if only SOME of the stations were droppable? obviously not the auto deploys, but maybe one in every country might make the map more interesting. Just a thought. looking forward to playing the update

Don't you think this would give a significant advantage to whoever drops the stations?

Hopscotcher wrote:What if only SOME of the stations were droppable? obviously not the auto deploys, but maybe one in every country might make the map more interesting. Just a thought. looking forward to playing the update

Don't you think this would give a significant advantage to whoever drops the stations?

not if a significant number were drop-able making it even odds on getting one on the drops.

Hopscotcher wrote:What if only SOME of the stations were droppable? obviously not the auto deploys, but maybe one in every country might make the map more interesting. Just a thought. looking forward to playing the update

Don't you think this would give a significant advantage to whoever drops the stations?

Nah. Not if you only made SOME of them droppable.

For Instance make all the non Orient Express Stations droppable:::AmsterdamBordeauxBerlinBelgradeLombardyReggio Calabria

SO....... Worst case scenario, somebody gets the Italy Rail bonus. They still have to get BOTH terminus to win even if they do have 5 stations.

I honestly think this would liven this map up quite a bit, but then I'm a fool for NYC

Also, is there a significant difference between the regular stations and the orient stations? Or is that purely for historical reference?

Hopscotcher wrote:What if only SOME of the stations were droppable? obviously not the auto deploys, but maybe one in every country might make the map more interesting. Just a thought. looking forward to playing the update

Don't you think this would give a significant advantage to whoever drops the stations?

not if a significant number were drop-able making it even odds on getting one on the drops.

Might be an Idea to think about.

Although I did win one game by holding the objective, it was more due to fog of war and poor vigilance on the part of my opponents. The objective is a mite too difficult to pursue I think to be meaningful, a bit like Lunar War. It's not completely insane (AOR maps come to mind) but it's certainly going to be a very low-percentage win strategy.

Making the non-terminus stations droppable (or some of them) would liven up the map by giving some focus back to the trains. The Land Monopolies are dominant in the early going on this map, and often in the late going as well, with the Rail Monopolies a nice supplement.

Still, this is a fun and fine-looking map. Great work (Lunar War as well).

i quite like this map, and i think the impassables are good but that may be because i like relatively more linear play, i get really confused when theres too many borders and everywhere can bombard and assault everywhere else and stuff

---The Beta period has concluded for the Orient Express Map. All objections have had their time. The Foundry and I hereby brand this map with the Foundry Brand. Let it be known that this map is now ready to be released into live play.

Congratulations natty_dread, your shiny new medal is well-earned

Conquer Club, enjoy!

--MrBenn

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